Fabrication of high concentration barium titanate/polyvinylpyrrolidone nano-composite thin films and their dielectric properties

A simple method for fabricating polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) thin films containing barium titanate (BT) nanoparticles on electrodes is proposed. The BT particles that had an average size of ca. 8 nm and a tetragonal crystalline phase were prepared with complex alkoxide methods in the presence of PVP. PVP/ethanol/water solutions containing the BT particles, which were suspended with sonication for 0-12 h, and were spin-coated on ITO glass substrates. Surface roughness was low at a sonication time longer than 4 h. As a BT concentration for the film increased from 0 to 85 wt%, its dielectric constant increased from 7 to 30 with dissipation factors below 0.12. The present method can be used to prepare high capacitance films at low temperatures, which have favorable electrical properties or characteristics.